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Currently going by the name Mark Kerbey, we have news about Richard Sage, serial fraudster notorious to readers of this blog.

For more than three decades, this gentleman has been defrauding individuals and organisations, resulting in more than 40 counts of fraud and a number of stretches in prison.

At Basildon Crown Court some four years ago, his ‘several severe life-threatening conditions’ and ‘bleak future because of coronary heart disease’ resulted in his most recent jail sentence being suspended for two years. This conviction resulted from his defrauding a vulnerable elderly couple, who had paid him £3,000 deposit for their funeral plans.

People living in Westcliff-on-Sea, Erith or Colchester might recognise Mr Kerbey, miraculously recovered from his several severe life threatening conditions, as the funeral director involved with Trinity Funeral Homes, a company that has three branches in Essex and offers ‘Affordable funerals from £695*’

We have written an in-depth piece charting the appalling catalogue of crimes in the chequered past of Sage / Kerbey, you can read it here if you’re interested.

In the meantime, we strongly advise that nobody engages Trinity Funeral Homes without extensive research into the person you are dealing with.

Reports have reached us that the infamous fraudster Richard Sage also known as Mark Kerby is due for release on 12 January 2017. His stated intention, we learn, is to return to the Southend-on-Sea area. We have not been able to verify these reports, but our source is trusted. If you don’t know who Richard Sage is, click his name in Categories below. 

Who is Richard Sage? Find out here. 

Devotees of the above will be delighted to learn that he remains free and very much at large in all senses of the word. 

His trial was due to start at Blackfriars Crown Court yesterday, but he phoned in sick. Case postponed until June. 

There are times when the law looks like a sick joke. 

Update 04.12.2013: It seems that R Sage is pleading heart trouble (again). His trial has been re-scheduled for 28^th April 2014 at Blackfriars Crown Court. 

Fans and followers of the egregious Richard Sage aka Mark Kerby will be pleased to know that, since his release from prison, he has been living in straitened circumstances in Westcliff-on-Sea. In case you had forgotten, he was jailed for fraud. Only after he had been banged up did it become apparent that money handed over for prepaid funerals was missing.

He has now been summoned to answer 3 charges of fraud (details not known to us) at Basildon Crown Court in a hearing slated for 4-8 December 2017.

A little bit of adversity never dimmed the spirit of our exponent of worst practice in funeral service. The world may be against him but his dreams live on. Our spy on the spot, to whom we pay thanks, informs us that he has advanced plans to open up a funeral home in Westcliff. He is currently banned from holding any directorships. We think we have the name of the person under whose flag he will fly, together with the name and the address of the premises he will occupy, but we have been unable to verify these in a watertight way so we’ll keep mum for now.

As soon as we know more, we’ll let you know.

In addition to our own back catalogue on Mr Sage/Kerby, you may be interested in this.

Dedicated followers of Richard Sage will know that he is operating out of the Mayer Funeral Home.

Invoices issued by the Mayer Funeral Home show that it is owned by Medi Call Southern Ltd, incorporated by Companies House on 07-11-2012. M-Call is – no surprises – an air ambulance business. Its SIC is given as ‘Funeral and related activities’.

Medi Call Southern operates out of a private house: 4 Bramfield Road East, Rayleigh, SS6 8RG.

Its director is named as Mr Sharon Parker. 

In case you missed it, the Mary Mayer Funeral Home, run by the mischievous Richard Sage under the moniker of Mark Kerbey, is in liquidation. He’s still there and was sighted at the crem a couple of days ago. Our spies have him under observation with strong binoculars. 

Where next will he rise again from the dead? 

Thank you, Nick Gandon, for spotting his latest demise.